paperpools

Was going to post this on Substack, but they don't let you indent blocks of text.

I've had the email address hdewitt@onetel.com since 2002 or so.

[A reader mentioned a post in which I had talked about Mark Girouard's Life in the English Country House.

Looked at my website, designed in 2007 or 2008 with a few later changes, and it's pretty much unreadable on my phone.

[All books now gone or spoken for - thanks to everyone who helped clear my shelves!]

Aaron Gwyn, Twitter, images of Cormac McCarthy's letter to his editor Albert Erskine about stylistic nuances of colons, commas, hyphens in his his first novel, The Orchard Keeper.

[This was originally posted back in 2009, I think, but was depublished by Blogger for violating Community Guidelines.

BBC radio segment on undervaluation of women artists (roughly, selling at 10% of what male artists sell for) here For those who recoil from audio, as I normally do, there's also a summary in the Guardian here

How to get a Kitagutschein on All About Berlin blog

Collins published The Credential Society in 1979, when his publishers took so tepid an interest in the book they refused to publish a paperback edition.

Short segment on Radio France on Proust's rejection by Gallimard, account of the many revisions Proust made to the MS once accepted for publication and typeset (he apparently made significant changes to FIVE galleys).

In summer 1997 I went to Oxford to do research on a character I thought should be an astronomer.

Am writing on my sister's laptop, as mine is on the fritz and I can't even find out whether it can be fixed because Maryland is under lockdown.

The real purpose of this blog, you may not have realised, is to have a place to put things where I can conveniently find them again.

Year ago David Levene (my ex) went to a talk about how you know whether someone mentioned in the Jewish Chronicle is Jewish or not.

Was reading Jonathan Glover's website and came across this video (70s?

Earlier this year I joined ANUFF Wood, a loose group of people in Windham County (VT) who turn up at each other's houses to cut/split/stack firewood.

I was recently interviewed by Jeremy Kitchen and Michael Sack for Eye 94 Radio (105.5 FM in Chicago), Lumpen Radio's books and literature program.

Terrific piece by Craig Pittman on John D.

If totalitarian regimes greatly restrict public language, pushing people toward coded language but making codes problematic by taking away the shared platforms where they could be unambiguously decoded, then a fraying totalitarian regime where people are…

I'm staying with my mother in Silver Spring for a few weeks and have agreed to do an informal event at Politics & Prose down in DC on Sunday, January 6, at 6 pm.

People who at once start talking 19 to the dozen are exasperating.

Many, many months ago I met a reader who commented that I never seemed to write on my blog.

A long time ago I started thinking about a book of sexual codes, inspired by Calvino's Invisible Cities.

Today I got an uplifting email in an account I rarely use for registrations.